Congrats on your new home! It will be charming. I think the awning spoils the lines of the house, and doesn't let you see the interesting angles of the brickwork. I would take it down. However, if you think it is really of benefit and you want to keep it, I would paint it the same color as the siding OR the same color as the roof. I would also paint the brown wood the siding color - it makes the front windows feel like they are sitting in a hole, and doesn't really do anything special for the house. I would also love to see you take out those bushes in front of the porch. They really date the house, and exposing that brick and stone would give the front porch more substance. A wider, curved bed in front of that with low plantings would be nice, and then perhaps a larger evergreen on the left corner of the porch. A second curved out bed in front of the left half of the house, perhaps a birdbath in the middle of the bed, and then a small tree of some kind on the left outside corner of the house, but a bit away and in the final curved planting area out even a bit more into the yard there. The ironwork is also a dated look, but I don't know if you want to replace that right now. Personally, I might take out the pieces in between the vertical posts, and open up the front porch even more. I think I would leave it white, like the rest of the trim on the house. Finally, I would think about a strong accent color for the front door. A rich navy would be very pretty, and a good transition between the cool grey tones in the roof and the warmer yellows and oranges of the brick and siding.

I would suggest when you do paint the house that you paint the whole house first with that strip painted out so he can see it without and paint that piece of the trim last as then you can see how it would look without and with it. Well what I was trying to say is your house does lean towards the spanish revival and you keep saying you want spanish and not tuscan, mexican etc. and really what is spanish color theme tends to be white or a very light color that reads white with a darker trim color such as brown, or more very muted colors. Landscaping makes a huge difference in how a house looks too. What I'm wondering is if you really have settled in your mind what you want the house to be or if you really need the house to be one particular style. Many color will work for your house as long as you pick something that works with the roof color. Maybe it is your mentioning spanish that throws me off. BTW if you look at the picture I posted it is a very simple style except for the tower and the other items are things your house has or will have too. You have arches, you have the curved wall, the raised trim, you're adding a pergola (not a porch like in the house shown). You could on your gable sides add corbels either dark stained wood or faux looking wood like you're planning for the garage door. If you look at a spanish villa - they tend to be white, with tile roofs, mainly boxy. Some have arches, some have railings that are often white and look like concrete formed (don't know the correct terminology). I guess I would ask yourself do you want the spanish look, or does it really matter and should you just go with a color that you like and not worry about trying to keep to a particular style?

Because the former carport sits lower than the original house, the roof line isn't continuous and I don't think that the windows can be raised to the same height as the others. Instead, I would consider a row of vertical windows (taller than they are wide) extending lower than the windows of the section to the left, with siding between them (not ganged together). I'd use the same horizontal siding as on the main section nearest it, letting the windows be the vertical element - with two outside wall materials already, it doesn't need a third.

It looks from the close-up of the windows that there is still a painted element and that is the part that could still be painted a soft gray so it doesn't look quite so stark - like it's been primed and is waiting for its final coat. Since you are going to have to remove the paneling around the front door anyway, you'll be able to find out if there is brick behind there. If there is and it is in reasonable shape, spend your efforts rehabilitating it, because the paneling is a little. . . . odd. What was the overall vision when selecting the colour of the garage siding? The colour certainly works with red brick, however, it would be more unifying if this colour was repeated. The shutters would be one possible place to re-use the colour. If it turns out there isn't brick on the returns around your front door, this would be another potential area to repeat the garage siding colour. Without knowing anything about your budget for the project and other plans you may have, it is difficult to be more specific.